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The Next War: Israel on the Brink

A Special Report and Analysis
from the A-O Newswire

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Israel Plans For War

The Times of London reports that Israel is planning for an eventual
all-out war with Syria and Iran. The newspaper article cites sources
indicating that Iranian planners view Israel's ineptness in Lebanon as
a reason for confidence that a war with Israel is winnable. This fact
has led to Israel reconsidering what kind of hostilities might develop
against Iran should Israel choose to launch air strikes against Iran's
nuclear facilities. Israeli planners now believe that any Israeli
strike would result in an all-out war that would include both Syria and
Iran. This new realization has caused Israeli leadership to re-evaluate
every aspect of Israel's defense posture and re-evaluate the prospects
for a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Among the changes in Israeli planning and strategy for such a future
war involves a re-organization of the Israeli Army. One particularly
interesting change involves the integration of three elite brigades
that performed well during the Lebanon war. These three brigades are to
be marshaled into a special force under one command headquarters with
the task of handling deep cross-border operations against Syria and
even Iran. Another indication that Israel is seriously concerned about
an all-out war, is the designation of a new military chief whose sole
responsibility is to handle command of any hostilities between Iran and
Israel. His job will be to command any future strikes against Iran and
or Syria since both nations now have signed a mutual defense treaty.

Other signals of Israeli war preparations include a new emergency
budget program to build more modern shelters to withstand the big
ballistic missiles now in possession of Syria and Iran. Current Israeli
shelters are not capable of handling the devastation of such larger
missiles which carry substantially heavier payloads and can reach all
of Israel. Both Syria and Lebanon have such heavy missiles and both
nations have chemical weapons warheads mountable on those missiles.
More details here.

The Illuminati Game Plan?

There are new, yet subtle indications that the Illuminati game plan is
to provoke Israel into a pre-emptive war action that will initially
engage Syria and then Iran in full-scale war that will in-turn trigger
the much vaunted World War 3 that Albert Pike envisioned and wrote
about in the late 19th century. Pike wrote a letter to the head of the
European Illuminati outlining an Illuminated strategy for three world
wars that would herald the coming of the Luciferian =E2=80=9Cmessiah=E2=

bring about a New World Order and a one-world government.

We are perhaps seeing early indications of such an endeavor now
plunging ahead full steam in the wake of the Lebanon war. One Council
on Foreign Relations member is suggesting that Israel needs to be
preparing for a full-scale war by first preemptively attacking Syria.

A debate is quietly raging within the Israeli military establishment
and among many Israeli policymakers that Israel=E2=80=99s big mistake in =

Lebanon war was not attacking Syria for that nation=E2=80=99s overt
assistance to Hezbollah.

One Council on Foreign Relations, senior analyst recently wrote an
article for the Los Angeles Times indicating that sooner or later,
Israel must deal militarily in a decisive way with Syria and should do
so before dealing with Iran.

There are strong indications that Hamas and other Gaza militants will
be stockpiling the same kind of rockets that Hezbollah used against
Israel. In fact, reports already are filtering in of shipments of such
rockets being smuggled into the Gaza Strip in anticipation of a third
=E2=80=9CIntifada.=E2=80=9D In fact, intelligence reports we=E2=80=99ve r=

suggest that a future conflict will include both Gaza and West Bank
Palestinians and Hezbollah uniting in a joint military operation
involving rockets coming from Israel nearly all sides. In other words,
things could get ugly, quickly.

Israel seems to be in a developing situation not unlike the American
military history fiasco of its wild west era when General George Custer
launched a reckless campaign against the American Plains Indians in
what is termed =E2=80=9CCuster=E2=80=99s Last Stand=E2=80=9D at the battl=

Bighorn where U.S. cavalry forces were outnumbered 10 to 1 and swamped
in overwhelming numbers. Custer and a third of his command was wiped
out by his reckless actions. So, too, are the perils now developing
against Israel by its neighbors. Clearly, time is not on the side of
Israel.

However, Israel is ill-prepared for any conflict at the moment, for a
number of reasons.

Israel Coming Unglued?

Israel=E2=80=99s civilian defenses are rather outmoded and out-of-date.
Israeli bomb shelters are old, and very much vulnerable to the heavy
missiles now held by both Syria and Iran. The fact that both nations
have WMD capabilities in chemical and bio-warfare fields only adds to
Israel=E2=80=99s peril.

Another factor is the issue of the technical vulnerabilities of Israeli
and U.S. electronic weapons countermeasures. The Lebanese conflict
demonstrated that Iran possessed new =E2=80=9Cblack-box=E2=80=9D technolo=

capable of countering U.S. and Israeli electronics rendering such
capabilities inoperative or ineffective.
This is an issue that must be addressed according to some experts
we=E2=80=99ve heard from.

These two elements alone are ample reasons to think that Israel and the
U.S. will not soon engage Iran in any military ventures. Yet, there are
deeper issues than these that should preclude any pre-emptive actions
against Syria or Iran any time this year. Such issues mainly revolve
around Israel=E2=80=99s own structural inadequacies in command and contro=

well as the competence of Israel=E2=80=99s civilian leadership. Indeed
questions are now being raised in Washington about not only these
issues but also about the entire structure of Israel=E2=80=99s government=

society and the indications of such levels of massive corruption and
societal attitudes that Israel can no longer be counted upon as a
stable, dependable ally of the United States.

Israel=E2=80=99s Future: A Military Dictatorship?

Indeed, there is growing concern among many analysts that the nation of
Israel itself is on the verge of inner collapse. Israel=E2=80=99s politic=

establishment is showing increasing signs that massive corruption has
so infected the governmental establishment that the ability of any
government to govern effectively may be impossible. Some believe that
the only way Israel=E2=80=99s Jewish population can survive is if the nat=

becomes a military dictatorship.

Indeed, during the Lebanon war, there was such a frustration within the
IDF that reportedly some in military leadership positions contemplated
the possibilities of instituting a military coup, in part because the
Olmert administration and the Prime Minister=E2=80=99s seeming ineptitude=

paralysis for making a decision and then sticking to it. According to
some insider sources, the Prime Minister not only seemed paralyzed and
waffling but there were apparently orders given only to be reversed
minutes or hours later. There was certainly a lack of confidence within
the military towards its civilian bosses.

The questions that have emerged now point towards evidence that
corruption has become so widespread and so bad within the Israeli
poltical structure that effective governance is impossible and a major
overhaul of the way Israel is governed is necessary to avoid an
eventual collapse of Israel=E2=80=99s political structure. These are
questions now being raised and analyzed by the United States as the
Bush administration weighs its options in the Iranian nuclear issue.

US Re-evaluates Israel

In the wake of Israel's fiasco in Lebanon, President Bush has ordered a
secret study of Israel's government and its ability to function
effectively as a government. The order also seeks to know what Israel's
true military capabilities really are. He has asked for the report to
be on his desk by the end of September.

Such a move, to us, indicates that the Bush administration has scrapped
any plans for an attack on Iran anytime soon. It could mean that Bush
is still desiring to launch an attack on Iran at a later time but needs
to know Israel's situation before determining how to proceed.

The order also indicates a questioning of Israel's strategic value to
the United States. Concern is growing that Israel can not be relied
upon as a trustworthy ally due to its society, its political system and
its military forces. The order comes after many days of apparent
arguments within the administration and is formed as a presidential
directive as part of an updated National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on
Israel. The whole point is to get a fresh, reappraisal of Israel's
capabilities in regards to US foreign policy in the Middle East region.
Is Israel really strong enough to be counted upon as a strong and
stable partner and a mainstay as the U.S. conducts foreign policy in
the region?

It seems that Bush and his advisors became very frustrated with the
current Israeli leadership and its failure to handle the Lebanon
situation properly. In other words, the U.S. realizes just how inept
the Israeli government has functioned in recent years, not mererly the
complete bungling by current Prime Minister Olmert. The rounds of
scandals which have surfaced within the Israeli government in recent
years suggests, that a malingering disease of corruption and
incompetence has lodged itself within Israeli politics and governmental
operations.

Israel's Incompetence?

The reasons for such a review come as a result of astounding reports of
total chaos, incompetence and stupidity from Olmert's government. It
appears that the Israeli military efforts were being run by The Three
Stooges conducting something of a Chinese Fire Drill or some sort of
fire engine clown act one might find in a circus. It was as if the
entire government and military functions of Israeli came unglued,
creating a metaphorical 'train-wreck' of massive proportions.

Had Syria had launched a war against Israel in July, Syria would be
holding Jerusalem and Tel Aviv today. Ditto could be said for Egypt
also. The facts are that Israel's military was essentially, incapable
of conducting a war against any standing army in the region because of
organizational and structural incompetence. The only thing that would
save Israel from such destruction would be its use of nuclear weapons,
but even that could be called into question because of concerns no one
would know how to push the stupid buttons properly to even order a
nuclear attack.

It would seem that the stage is being swept for a total upheaval in
Israel's establishment as the US loses confidence in Israel. Israel is
going to have to make radical changes in the way its government
functions or the existence of that nation could collapse. It is
entirely possible that Israel's democratic form of government will
collapse into a military dictatorship or else the nation will
disappear. It won't take long for Syria, Iran, Egypt and other muslim
nations to figure out just how easily Israel could be conquered. Thus,
setting the stage for the Magog invasion predicted in Ezekiel 38 and
39.

US Losing Confidence in Israel

As a result of the realization that Israel can not be counted on
militarily to even defend itself from further Iranian or Syrian attacks
either through Hezbollah or directly by forces of those two nations,
the Pentagon has quietly re-structured its command and control for any
further conflicts in the region which intelligence estimates now is
bound to occur. This re-organization of command and control primarily
affects US naval forces.

The resultant re-organization has culminated in the Pentagon ordering a
U.S. naval contingent to continually monitor the region from positions
off the Lebanese coast. The purpose is to provide the most
sophisticated intelligence and advance warning capaibilities to protect
against any hostile Hezbollah, Iranian or Syrian efforts to probe
Israel's military defenses or that of the peace keeping forces.

It should also be noted that the UN peace keeping forces involving
French and Italian troops does not need the support of the French
aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle, nor the Italian aircraft carrier
Garibaldi as well as an amalgam of 15 European warships. Some
intelligence analysts think the European forces are in place to keep an
eye on any potential US and Israeli military moves against Iran and or
Syria and perhaps interfere with any U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran.
Clearly, the Europeans are anticipating that the U.S. will make some
sort of military move soon against Iran.

Our sources however, indicate that because of the Israeli meltdown,
such a move is highly unlikely unless, Iran and Syria provoke some sort
of action. It may well be that the Europeans are less aware of the
seriousness of Israel's incapability for properly mounting a war. It
may well be that they think the Lebanese fiasco was deliberately
created so that Iran or potential adversaries would let their guard
down. The indications we are getting however, is that the U.S. and
Israel did not create the ruse of an Israeli meltdown. No, it is our
opinion that the meltdown was for real.

All of this comes behind the backdrop of new developments on the
Iranian nuclear weapons program. New intelligence reports indicate that
Iran continues to shock the intelligence world with its progress on
nuclear weapons development. There had been reports that Iran=E2=80=99s
nuclear production capability would be achieved by last spring or this
fall. This information was based upon limited information that many
considered to be outrageously unreliable. However, those sources were
not far from the truth according to more recent intelligence updates,
as we understand it.

Apparently there were some snags that developed in Iran=E2=80=99s program=

the past year and a half that apparently delayed the time-table. Those
snags have apparently now been overcome, thanks to secret assistance
from Pakistani nuclear scientists who were surreptitiously spirited
away from Pakistan to Iran for consultation. The problems were
diagnosed and solutions employed so that now, Iran=E2=80=99s bomb product=

capability is perhaps only 10 to 12 months away, with new breakthroughs
being achieved. Iran=E2=80=99s recent announcement of successes is not to=

discounted lightly, particularly now that Pakistani nuclear physicists
are involved in the program.

All of this, of course, sets the stage for a coming military
confrontation. How soon? As we reported earlier this year, citing
independent reports by Pulitzer Prize journalist Seymour Hersch,
President Bush wants to launch pre-emptive air strikes on Iran with
possible use of nuclear weapons. Another respected journalist, Will
Thomas reported that Bush even wanted to invade Iran with ground forces
moving in from Iraq. Both reporters were getting signals that Bush
wanted some sort of action this past spring or summer. The Hezbollah
situation was perhaps supposed to be the excuse for launching strikes
but apparently Israel couldn=E2=80=99t get its act together plus the ECM
problem developed and the plans became sidetracked as problems
developed that would preclude any successful action against Iran.

As we understand it now, the ground warfare option has been tabled by
the Bush White House amid opposition from Pentagon planners who have
determined that such a venture would be like Custer at the Little Big
Horn, a total massacre of US forces.

On the flip side, Iran is apparently prepared for any kind of attack,
ground or air and has prepared a trap for any US actions, including a
massive war effort inside Iraq by both Shiite and Sunni sects, perhaps
combined with Iranian army forces invading Iraq to directly tackle US
Army and Marine forces.

There can be no doubt that Iranian leaders are prepared to shut off the
Persian Gulf shipping lanes, thus depriving the world of oil shipments
from the Gulf region. Iran could easily stop such shipments because of
its advanced anti-ship missile capabilities and ECM technology. Any US
Navy ships in the Gulf would likely become sitting ducks.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations then become extremely vulnerable to
Iranian military threats as well as potential internal upheavals by
citizens against the royal families ruling in the Gulf. This aspect has
been driven home to the Saudis in particular. The King of Saudi Arabia
has begun making moves as a result.

Saudi Arabia Fears Iran

Saudi Arabia had been quietly moving away from the idea of being
protected by the American military power in the region. The Saudis have
been less than cooperative with U.S. foreign policy in the past 3 years
or so, especially in the wake of Gulf War 2. That has all changed with
the Lebanese war and Iran's signalling its intent to build nuclear
weapons. The Saudis are terrified of Iran's ability to crush not only
the Saudi kingdom but also that of other Gulf nations as well. As a
result, the Saudis have quietly stepped back under the American
umbrella of protection.

The Saudis are also concerned that Iran might turn Lebanon into a
nation of Shiite muslims, now a mixture of Sunni, Shia and Druze
Christians. The Saudis fear a puppet regime in Lebanon under Iran's
control will be the beginning of many more puppet states, including the
Saud kingdom. As a result, the Saudis recognize that in the wake of the
Lebanon war, hearts and minds can be won over by Iran dispensing
economic aid and generous loans to the Lebanese citizenry, in exchange
for allegiance to Iran and to Hezbollah. The Saudi alarm at such a
prospect is so great that the kingdom is launching its own economic aid
program to outbid Iran for the allegiance of the Lebanese people. It's
sort of an Islamic version of the concept of "The Prosperity Gospel" of
sorts in a bid to keep Sunnis in Lebanon from converting to the Shia
sect's Islamic dogmas and Iran's Shiite dogma power politics.

Another element in the Saudi plan to counter the growing influence of
Iran is to develop a new Pan-Arab unity that would shut Iran out of any
influence as Iran is not Arabic, but instead, Persian. There's a
difference. Such a new emergence would help isolate Iran as a predatory
nation within the Middle East construct and thus minimizing its
influence and power and creating a protective wall against Iranian
hegemony in the region and against any backlash by Iran should America
wage war on Iran.
Now why is this so important from the aspect of Biblical Prophecy?

The Impact with Biblical Prophecy

Iran is mentioned in two key future events according to the Biblical
prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Iran will play a role in
the first of two judgments against =E2=80=9CBabylon-America.=E2=80=9D Isa=

and Jeremiah 51: 11 and 27-28 indicates that Iran (referred to as the
=E2=80=9CMedes=E2=80=9D and 3 small tribes comprising much of modern-day =

play some sort of role during the first judgment or the =E2=80=9Cfiery=E2=

judgment of =E2=80=9CBabylon-America.=E2=80=9D

Based upon nearly 20 years of analysis on these prophecies, it is this
commentator=E2=80=99s opinion that the text is indicating Iran will play a
role in the destruction of Babylon-America=E2=80=99 s forces in the Persi=

Gulf region when supernatural, angelic forces move to destroy
=E2=80=9CBabylon-America.=E2=80=9D In other words, as the continental Uni=

is destroyed supernaturally, Iran acts within the Persian Gulf region
to destroy American forces in the region.

The second key event in which Iran is mentioned comes in regard to the
Magog invasion as described by Ezekiel chapter 38: 5. Iran (Persia) is
mentioned as one of the allies which join in the invasion of Israel
from the north.

So Iran has two key prophetic roles to fulfill. This means that any
attempt by President Bush to destroy Iran would be an attempt to
subvert Biblical Prophecy and God=E2=80=99s Word. We can only say that th=

will NOT sit well with God, should Bush move to carry out such an
attempt. Such an action would be the proverbial last straw, prompting
God to declare, =E2=80=9Cenough,=E2=80=9D and trigger the divine wrath in=

wrath against America that will result in America=E2=80=99s total destruc=

in one hour of one day.

Thus, any mention of the Bush administration planning to attack Iran,
particularly with nuclear weapons, catches this researcher=E2=80=99s
attention. If such an attack is to develop, this commentator is firmly
convinced that at the last moment, before the attack can be carried
out, or perhaps even as US planes and missiles are in the air, angelic
forces will swing into action against the continental United States.
I=E2=80=99d also expect to see angelic forces intercept any US aircraft or
missiles and destroy them. The results will leave Iran free to
essentially conduct mop-up operations against U.S. military forces in
the Persian Gulf, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and in bases
around the Persian Gulf such as in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
Bahrain, and perhaps Diego Garcia.

In addition to all of this, Revelation 18:4 comes into fulfillment as
The Rapture of the Church takes place, I believe just prior to the
angelic forces inflicting God=E2=80=99s divine wrath on America. Essentia=

then, I expect The Rapture to take place at the last moment, just
before the judgment begins possibly as US warplanes and missiles are
flying towards their targets in Iran. Some think there is to be a gap
between the time of the Rapture and the beginning of the judgment.
While this is possible, I wouldn=E2=80=99t make any such dogmatic asserti=

To the contrary, the Revelation 18:4 passage suggests the rescued
believers will be pulled out at the last moment, much like Lot and his
family were pulled from Sodom and Gomorrah.

No doubt, prior to such occurrences, events will escalate publicly in
the media. I would anticipate a lot of drum beating by the Bush
administration before the President orders such an attack. Therefore, I
think this will perhaps be the key warning signals that we all need to
be on the alert for.

At this time, I do not see any signs of imminent military attack by the
United States or Israel against Iran. In fact, there seems to be strong
indications that such an attack has been delayed yet again, perhaps for
another 12 months. Yet, having said that, do not relax and rule out
something developing suddenly. Why?
Should Iran make some sort of provocative move, such as attacking
shipping in the Gulf or attacking U.S.
military interests or some sort of massive terror attack attributed to
Iran might spark a sudden, knee-jerk event at perhaps any moment. Thus,
it is possible that all of this might transpire even in this current
month of September. I doubt it, but I wouldn=E2=80=99t rule it out. It sh=

be noted that some prophecy watchers hold to a theory that the Rapture
of the church will come during one of the two feast days of Rosh
Hashanah. We find that theory to be an intriguing one and if it is
indeed a correct theory then perhaps this is the year and if so, Rosh
Hashanah starts on the night of September 22nd. It is something to be
aware of and to keep an eye out for. So my advice is to be alert, watch
and be prepared for any eventuality.


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